Category Archives: 24/7 Newsroom News
Runoff Date Announced in North Texas Special Election
(Facebook) AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – An important date is now set in a North Texas run-off election. Governor Greg Abbott named December 19 as special-election day in the runoff for Senate District 3...
Oct 11, 2020
Former Major League Baseball Executive Dies
Houston (AP) – Jimmie Lee Solomon, a top executive for Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bud Selig, who established youth academies and helped launch the annual Futures Game of top prospe...
Oct 11, 2020
Governor Abbott’s Order Limiting Mail-In Ballot Drop Off Locations Remains In Force
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas counties are once again not allowed to set up more than one drop off location for mail-in ballots. A federal judge in Austin Friday ruled Governor Abbott’s one-p...
Oct 11, 2020
OurCalling dedicates new $1.7 million Women’s Center designed to support vulnerable homeless women
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- In North Texas, there are approximately 2,400 unsheltered homeless women who are among the most vulnerable populations, facing assault or abuse nearly every week. These women will ...
Oct 10, 2020
Senate Hearings For Judge Amy Coney Barrett Begin Monday
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats are treading carefully on religious faith as they prepare to question President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Several Democrats on th...
Oct 10, 2020
Hurricane Delta Downgraded To Tropical Storm
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) – Delta has been downgraded from a once powerful hurricane to a tropical storm as it moves inland across the U.S. South. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Delta cam...
Oct 10, 2020
Texas’ U.S. Senate Candidates Clashed In Debate Friday
Senator John Cornyn (R/TX), MJ Hegar, (D) Texas U.S. Senate candidate Austin (AP) – Texas Republican John Cornyn and Democrat MJ Hegar clashed over the response to the cornavirus pandemic and th...
Oct 10, 2020
Texas AG Drops Case That Touched Off A Staff Revolt
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he’s dropping an investigation sought by a wealthy donor that set off an extraordinary revolt by his own top deputies. Members o...
Oct 10, 2020
Judge Overturns Governor’s Ballot Drop-off Reductions
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – A federal judge has blocked Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s October 1 order that dramatically reduced the number of places where voters could drop off mail ballots during...
Oct 10, 2020
Texas Baptist Men Are Headed Back to Louisiana Providing Hurricane Help
(WBAP/KLIF) — As Hurricane Delta made landfall Friday night, several humanitarian groups were preparing to provide relief. John Hall with Texas Baptist Men says their group is already headed to ...
Oct 09, 2020
